.58 - 1019 grain cast??

[cigar_man]

A buddy gave me a box of old cast bullets for scrap from an old time deceased reloader.

I have never seen anything this heavy before in .58

I can't even find a reference to it.

Maybe some older African Muzzle Loader??

It measures .580 - 1019 grains of soft alloy and is flat based.

 

[Pete04]

Wow, that would hurt if you just dropped it on your toe! LOL, never mind out of a barrel at a few hundred f/sec

 

[Dantforth]

Not for a Snider. Possibly for 577 Nitro Express or one of the other old elephant type rifles. I believe that it certainly would only be for a cartridge rifle with that flat base. Interesting bullet. Dave

 

[mooncoon]

It would not be for an express rifle; by definition they shot light bullets with lots of powder to get a flatter trajectory. Must have been for some sort of 58 cal rifle and perhaps a double rifle but not an express rifle

cheers mooncoon

 

[cigar_man]

I sure would have loved to seen the rifle that belonged to that bullet.

Always wanted a big double, but waaaay out of my price range.

 

[Brutus]

Looks kind of like an overgrown Minie bullet of the era of the American Civil War.
Normally they are around or just over 500 grains in weight.

 

[smellie]

Likely for a Slug Gun.

Think of something with a 4- to 5-foot barrel, anywhere from 20 to 45 pounds, fired from a rest at both ends, usually underhammer action, couple of hundred grains of powder. They were used for long-range target shooting starting back in the late 1840s.

Generally they used paper-patched bullets with a cross-patch, but the lube groves were preferred by some shooters. Modern shooters don't want to futz about with cross-patches anyway and if you lose the original muzzle attachment, you can't find another to fit because they were made (as any precision starter for a breech/muzzleloader) from a chunk of the barrel which was sawn off and belled before both pieces were reassembled and rifled as a single piece.

They were the original rifles used by Berdan's Sharpshooters in the Civil War. Later they changed to a much lighter rifle called the Sharps'.

There are still a few people shooting these monsters today.

If you want more, just google "slug gun" and you will be amazed at the information available.
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